[freenet-chat] Re: [freenet-support] Freenet 0.7

2006-09-01 Thread Matthew Toseland
On Thu, Aug 31, 2006 at 01:12:53PM -0500, GeckoX wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > I was in China last year. I was able to create a VPN connection in the US > with no problem. Most of the web didn't work, even SSL. SSH was completely > blocked as well, which is why I

Re: [freenet-chat] Re: [freenet-support] Freenet 0.7

2006-09-01 Thread GeckoX
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I was in China last year. I was able to create a VPN connection in the US with no problem. Most of the web didn't work, even SSL. SSH was completely blocked as well, which is why I was surprised that I could connect via VPN with no problems. This

Re: [freenet-chat] Re: [freenet-support] Freenet 0.7

2006-09-01 Thread Matthew Toseland
On Thu, Aug 31, 2006 at 01:12:53PM -0500, GeckoX wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I was in China last year. I was able to create a VPN connection in the US with no problem. Most of the web didn't work, even SSL. SSH was completely blocked as well, which is why I was

Re: [freenet-chat] Re: [freenet-support] Freenet 0.7

2006-09-01 Thread urza9814
Meh...depends where you're at. It's not one giant firewallit's a regional thing. Beijing must just have high security. Seems odd that they'd block out SSHbut I suppose SSH is a good way to hide what you're doing. On 9/1/06, Matthew Toseland [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, Aug 31, 2006

[freenet-chat] Re: [freenet-support] Freenet 0.7

2006-08-31 Thread inverse
Matthew Toseland wrote: > It's unnecessary anyway because it only applies to TCP. It does however > tell us something very interesting and useful: The firewall is stateless !! heh, it would be damn expensive to do that in a stateful way. let's see: >1. Timing. >2. Packet size. >3. It's not a

[freenet-chat] Re: [freenet-support] Freenet 0.7

2006-08-31 Thread Roman V. Isaev
On 08/31, Matthew Toseland wrote: > > > Have you thought about that ignoring reset packets thing that was > > > shown to make it possible to bypass The Great Firewall? I mean, I > > > don't know too much about it, or if it'd be possible for > > > freenetbut it might be worth looking in to. > >

[freenet-chat] Re: [freenet-support] Freenet 0.7

2006-08-31 Thread Matthew Toseland
On Thu, Aug 31, 2006 at 06:01:45PM +0400, Roman V. Isaev wrote: > On 08/31, Matthew Toseland wrote: > > > > Have you thought about that ignoring reset packets thing that was > > > > shown to make it possible to bypass The Great Firewall? I mean, I > > > > don't know too much about it, or if it'd

[freenet-chat] Re: [freenet-support] Freenet 0.7

2006-08-31 Thread Matthew Toseland
On Wed, Aug 30, 2006 at 11:52:23PM +0200, David 'Bombe' Roden wrote: > On Wednesday 30 August 2006 23:47, urza9814 at gmail.com wrote: > > > Have you thought about that ignoring reset packets thing that was > > shown to make it possible to bypass The Great Firewall? I mean, I > > don't know too

[freenet-chat] Re: [freenet-support] Freenet 0.7

2006-08-31 Thread Matthew Toseland
Hundreds of projects? Such as? None of them comes anywhere near to our techology; most of them are either easily harvestable and blockable proxy networks, or WASTE clones. On Wed, Aug 30, 2006 at 05:47:43PM -0400, urza9814 at gmail.com wrote: > Have you thought about that ignoring reset packets

[freenet-chat] Re: [freenet-support] Freenet 0.7

2006-08-31 Thread Matthew Toseland
0.7 has no predictable or repeated bytes whatsoever. It can probably be identified by several more expensive, less reliable techiques at present: 1. Timing. 2. Packet size. 3. It's not a known protocol, therefore it must be bad. 4. Flow analysis. On Wed, Aug 30, 2006 at 10:35:32PM +0200, inverse

[freenet-chat] Re: [freenet-support] Freenet 0.7

2006-08-31 Thread GeckoX
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I was in China last year. I was able to create a VPN connection in the US with no problem. Most of the web didn't work, even SSL. SSH was completely blocked as well, which is why I was surprised that I could connect via VPN with no problems. This

[freenet-chat] Re: [freenet-support] Freenet 0.7

2006-08-31 Thread inverse
urza9814 at gmail.com wrote: > Have you thought about that ignoring reset packets thing that was > shown to make it possible to bypass The Great Firewall? I mean, I > don't know too much about it, or if it'd be possible for > freenetbut it might be worth looking in to. it's possible to do

[freenet-chat] Re: [freenet-support] Freenet 0.7

2006-08-31 Thread inverse
David 'Bombe' Roden wrote: > Communication between 0.7 nodes doesn't have to exchange public keys, > those are already known as they are contained in the node reference. nice! I definitely need to install 0.7 and capture some packets for testing

[freenet-chat] Re: [freenet-support] Freenet 0.7

2006-08-31 Thread David 'Bombe' Roden
On Wednesday 30 August 2006 23:47, urza9814 at gmail.com wrote: > Have you thought about that ignoring reset packets thing that was > shown to make it possible to bypass The Great Firewall? I mean, I > don't know too much about it, or if it'd be possible for > freenetbut it might be worth

[freenet-chat] Re: [freenet-support] Freenet 0.7

2006-08-31 Thread David 'Bombe' Roden
On Wednesday 30 August 2006 22:35, inverse wrote: > beyond harvesting the connected IP addresses to raid their owner's > homes, one big concern with encrypted protocols is that they can be > filtered out by application-level scanning firewalls. I think this is > exactly what's happening in China.

Re: [freenet-chat] Re: [freenet-support] Freenet 0.7

2006-08-31 Thread Matthew Toseland
0.7 has no predictable or repeated bytes whatsoever. It can probably be identified by several more expensive, less reliable techiques at present: 1. Timing. 2. Packet size. 3. It's not a known protocol, therefore it must be bad. 4. Flow analysis. On Wed, Aug 30, 2006 at 10:35:32PM +0200, inverse

Re: [freenet-chat] Re: [freenet-support] Freenet 0.7

2006-08-31 Thread Matthew Toseland
Hundreds of projects? Such as? None of them comes anywhere near to our techology; most of them are either easily harvestable and blockable proxy networks, or WASTE clones. On Wed, Aug 30, 2006 at 05:47:43PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Have you thought about that ignoring reset packets thing

Re: [freenet-chat] Re: [freenet-support] Freenet 0.7

2006-08-31 Thread Matthew Toseland
On Wed, Aug 30, 2006 at 11:52:23PM +0200, David 'Bombe' Roden wrote: On Wednesday 30 August 2006 23:47, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Have you thought about that ignoring reset packets thing that was shown to make it possible to bypass The Great Firewall? I mean, I don't know too much about

Re: [freenet-chat] Re: [freenet-support] Freenet 0.7

2006-08-31 Thread Roman V. Isaev
On 08/31, Matthew Toseland wrote: Have you thought about that ignoring reset packets thing that was shown to make it possible to bypass The Great Firewall? I mean, I don't know too much about it, or if it'd be possible for freenetbut it might be worth looking in to. That would

Re: [freenet-chat] Re: [freenet-support] Freenet 0.7

2006-08-31 Thread Matthew Toseland
On Thu, Aug 31, 2006 at 06:01:45PM +0400, Roman V. Isaev wrote: On 08/31, Matthew Toseland wrote: Have you thought about that ignoring reset packets thing that was shown to make it possible to bypass The Great Firewall? I mean, I don't know too much about it, or if it'd be possible

Re: [freenet-chat] Re: [freenet-support] Freenet 0.7

2006-08-31 Thread inverse
Matthew Toseland wrote: It's unnecessary anyway because it only applies to TCP. It does however tell us something very interesting and useful: The firewall is stateless !! heh, it would be damn expensive to do that in a stateful way. let's see: 1. Timing. 2. Packet size. 3. It's not a known

[freenet-chat] Re: [freenet-support] Freenet 0.7

2006-08-30 Thread inverse
Matthew Toseland wrote: > Well on the most trivial level, 0.5 doesn't work in china. > yo, beyond harvesting the connected IP addresses to raid their owner's homes, one big concern with encrypted protocols is that they can be filtered out by application-level scanning firewalls. I think this

[freenet-chat] Re: [freenet-support] Freenet 0.7

2006-08-30 Thread Ortwin Regel
It wasn't safe enough, though, I suppose. On 30 Aug 2006 03:27:04 -, Crash at remailer-debian.panta-rhei.eu.org < Crash at remailer-debian.panta-rhei.eu.org> wrote: > > On Tue, 29 Aug 2006 22:01:06 +0100, you wrote: > > > > Freenet 0.5 had opennet, and yet it was a failure. > > > > Ok, I

[freenet-chat] Re: [freenet-support] Freenet 0.7

2006-08-30 Thread Matthew Toseland
Well on the most trivial level, 0.5 doesn't work in china. On Wed, Aug 30, 2006 at 08:51:32PM +0200, Ortwin Regel wrote: > It wasn't safe enough, though, I suppose. > > On 30 Aug 2006 03:27:04 -, Crash at remailer-debian.panta-rhei.eu.org < > Crash at remailer-debian.panta-rhei.eu.org>

[freenet-chat] Re: [freenet-support] Freenet 0.7

2006-08-30 Thread urza9...@gmail.com
Have you thought about that ignoring reset packets thing that was shown to make it possible to bypass The Great Firewall? I mean, I don't know too much about it, or if it'd be possible for freenetbut it might be worth looking in to. Also just wanna add that I fully support the desire to help

[freenet-chat] Re: [freenet-support] Freenet 0.7

2006-08-30 Thread cr...@remailer-debian.panta-rhei.eu.org
On Tue, 29 Aug 2006 22:01:06 +0100, you wrote: > > Freenet 0.5 had opennet, and yet it was a failure. > Ok, I gotta know this. How is 0.5 considered a failure. I use it daily and it works flawlessly, Frost messages flow as well as ever, as do downloads of splitfiles. Yesterday I retrieved a

Re: [freenet-chat] Re: [freenet-support] Freenet 0.7

2006-08-30 Thread Crash
On Tue, 29 Aug 2006 22:01:06 +0100, you wrote: Freenet 0.5 had opennet, and yet it was a failure. Ok, I gotta know this. How is 0.5 considered a failure. I use it daily and it works flawlessly, Frost messages flow as well as ever, as do downloads of splitfiles. Yesterday I retrieved a

Re: [freenet-chat] Re: [freenet-support] Freenet 0.7

2006-08-30 Thread Ortwin Regel
It wasn't safe enough, though, I suppose.On 30 Aug 2006 03:27:04 -, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 29 Aug 2006 22:01:06 +0100, you wrote: Freenet 0.5 had opennet, and yet it was a failure.Ok, I gotta know this.How is 0.5 considered a failure. I use it daily andit works

Re: [freenet-chat] Re: [freenet-support] Freenet 0.7

2006-08-30 Thread Matthew Toseland
Well on the most trivial level, 0.5 doesn't work in china. On Wed, Aug 30, 2006 at 08:51:32PM +0200, Ortwin Regel wrote: It wasn't safe enough, though, I suppose. On 30 Aug 2006 03:27:04 -, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 29 Aug 2006 22:01:06 +0100, you wrote:

Re: [freenet-chat] Re: [freenet-support] Freenet 0.7

2006-08-30 Thread inverse
Matthew Toseland wrote: Well on the most trivial level, 0.5 doesn't work in china. yo, beyond harvesting the connected IP addresses to raid their owner's homes, one big concern with encrypted protocols is that they can be filtered out by application-level scanning firewalls. I think this

Re: [freenet-chat] Re: [freenet-support] Freenet 0.7

2006-08-30 Thread David 'Bombe' Roden
On Wednesday 30 August 2006 22:35, inverse wrote: beyond harvesting the connected IP addresses to raid their owner's homes, one big concern with encrypted protocols is that they can be filtered out by application-level scanning firewalls. I think this is exactly what's happening in China.

Re: [freenet-chat] Re: [freenet-support] Freenet 0.7

2006-08-30 Thread urza9814
Have you thought about that ignoring reset packets thing that was shown to make it possible to bypass The Great Firewall? I mean, I don't know too much about it, or if it'd be possible for freenetbut it might be worth looking in to. Also just wanna add that I fully support the desire to help

Re: [freenet-chat] Re: [freenet-support] Freenet 0.7

2006-08-30 Thread David 'Bombe' Roden
On Wednesday 30 August 2006 23:47, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Have you thought about that ignoring reset packets thing that was shown to make it possible to bypass The Great Firewall? I mean, I don't know too much about it, or if it'd be possible for freenetbut it might be worth looking in

Re: [freenet-chat] Re: [freenet-support] Freenet 0.7

2006-08-30 Thread inverse
David 'Bombe' Roden wrote: Communication between 0.7 nodes doesn't have to exchange public keys, those are already known as they are contained in the node reference. nice! I definitely need to install 0.7 and capture some packets for testing ___

Re: [freenet-chat] Re: [freenet-support] Freenet 0.7

2006-08-30 Thread inverse
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Have you thought about that ignoring reset packets thing that was shown to make it possible to bypass The Great Firewall? I mean, I don't know too much about it, or if it'd be possible for freenetbut it might be worth looking in to. it's possible to do it, but